SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- If you missed LDS daytime talk star Donny
Osmond in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" as the show
toured around North America a couple of years ago, you're now in
luck. The video version of the show was released today and is now
available in stores.

Originally, Osmond says, the video was to be made in Salt Lake City,
"We were going to fly in the crew and cast members from the previous
(stage) versions and do it all here. We were even going to do some
scenes in the old Osmond Studios, but things didn't work out with the
directors and choreographers, and these plans just kind of fell apart
- although that was the whole impetus behind the Salt Lake run." The
show as eventually videotaped at the Pinewood Studios near London.
The 1-hour, 20-minute show was rehearsed and shot there under the
direction of Webber.

Not only is the video now available, but the show will be broadcast
on most PBS stations in April along with a new "Music of Andrew Lloyd
Webber" special that Osmond narrated.

While Osmond plays the lead in the show, he is by no means the only
star in the show. Sir Richard Attenborough plays Jacob, Joseph's
father and Joan Collins plays Potiphar's wife, a casting decision
that at first caught Osmond by surprise, "When I first heard about
it, I thought, 'Hmmm, I don't know about that,' " Osmond said. "But
Sir Andrew himself made the call to Joan and said he wanted her in
it." While Collins isn't known for her singing, the role doesn't
require any singing, note's Osmond, "All she says is 'Come lie with
me, love.' How much singing quality do you have to have for that?" he
explained.

Osmond got a side benefit to filming the show in London. His son is
currently serving an LDS mission there, "We had an opportunity to see
him several times," he said. (Another son is preparing to leave on a
mission this summer.)